 How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their Country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallow'd mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod. By fairy hands their knell is rung,...  The Book of Georgian Verse - Page 169redigeeritud poolt - 1909 - 1313 lehteFull view - About this book
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 lehte
...THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE REBELLION OF 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell, a weeping... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 lehte
...written on the extinction of the REBELLION in 1746, must not be omitted — How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their COUNTRY'S wishes blest! When...shall awhile repair To dwell a weeping hermit there ! COLLINS. But lamentable to say, the generality of wars of which we read in the page of history, are... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 350 lehte
...the liberties of their country — the last of which is as follows : — How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1837 - 342 lehte
...the liberties of their country — the last of which is as follows : — How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while repair, And dwell a weeping... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1838 - 332 lehte
...THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO FELL IN THE BEBELLIOV OP 1745. " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest With all their country's wishes blest ! When Spring, with...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair To dwell, a weeping... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 284 lehte
...architectural purpc GLORY. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there. COLLINS. Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 lehte
...COLLINS. 1720-1756. ODE. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their countiy's wishes bless'd ! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall a while... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1844 - 544 lehte
...consecrate their victory!" " How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest 1 When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck...knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung; Their honour comes, a pilgrim grey, To bless the turf that wraps their clay, And Freedom shall awhile... | |
 | William Collins - 1848 - 158 lehte
...curtain'd close such scene from ev'ry future ODE WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest ! When...their dirge is sung ; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; And Freedom shall a while repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 lehte
...gentlest influence own, ODE, WRITTEN Df THE BEGINNING OP THE YEAR 1746. How sleep the brave who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! When...their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping... | |
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